What happend to the other generic exenatide implants are they now in the lead since Intarica blew up ?
-Delpor’s titanium drug-eluting device that delivers exenatide for treatment of type II diabetes. Delpor’s system also is designed to deliver drugs for treating bipolar disorder, growth hormone deficiencies, and hepatitis C.
-NanoPrecision Medical is developing NanoPortalTM, a rice-size titanium implant that delivers exenatide for type II diabetes.
What happened to the once a year story ? where did it go ?
Intarcia’s technology, ITCA 650, is a DUROS® implant delivery technology licensed from the ALZA Corporation in 2007. ITCA 650 is a small, matchstick-sized osmotic pump consisting of a cylindrical titanium alloy reservoir that is implanted subcutaneously and delivers a steady flow of exenatide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, for 12 months.
What happent to the first DUROS product to be approved ? Why is this now a big idea ?
Viadur, which received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March 2000, is the first and only product to provide continuous, 12-month testosterone suppression with a single treatment, and is the first approved product to incorporate ALZA 's proprietary DUROS implant technology.